In his forward to Somaly Mam’s The Road of Lost Innocence, Nicholas Kristof celebrates the Cambodian sex-trafficking survivor for embodying “the resilience, courage, and nobility of the human spirit.” Kristof, a journalist for The New York Times, was among Mam’s most enthusiastic champions until an article published in Newsweek in 2014 challenged the veracity ofContinue reading “New publication by Leslie Barnes: Nicholas Kristof as Global Savior”
Asie du Sud Est Research Network
The Asie du Sud Est Research Network (ASERN) brings together scholars of francophone Southeast Asian literature and film. ASERN explores the textual representations of "l'Indochine française," the contemporary nation-states of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, and their diasporas.
Asie du Sud Est Research Network 